3 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
Account of events related to the massacre, which occurred on August 14, 1985, of 69 peasants from the Ayacucho district of Accomarca, extrajudicially executed in the area known as LLoccllapampa …
This cable deals with the problems surrounding the investigation into the Cayara massacre, including conflicting testimony. Based on information from an Embassy source and other reliable information, the document draws …
This document analyzes the recent Supreme Court decision ordering Lieutenant Commander Artaza to stand trial in a civilian court for the 1984 disappearance of journalist Jaime Ayala. The document covers …
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In spite of the evidence of the kidnapping and murder of the students and the professor of La Cantuta, the official majority in Congress approved the minority opinion that sustained the thesis of self-kidnapping. This decision was taken, although it seems incredible, denying the evidence of military participation in the …
On May 24, 1993, constituents of former President Alberto Fujimori's political party Cambio 90 prevented members of the Colina detachment from being questioned by the Congressional Investigation Commission. This obstruction was part of a systematic strategy to cover up the Colina detachment's crimes, which included political intervention in various state …
General Nicolás Hermoza Ríos went before the investigative commission and emphatically denied that the Army had programmed and executed the operation during which the students and the teacher from La Cantuta were detained. This initial denial was later contradicted by the general himself.
On April 5, 1992, President Alberto Fujimori, with the support of the Armed Forces and the police, dissolved the Congress of the Republic, intervened in the Judicial Power and installed an unconstitutional regime known as the 'Government of Emergency and National Reconstruction'. When the military coup perpetrators closed the Congress, …
On November 10, 1991, the Senate Human Rights Commission summoned former Ministers of the Interior and Defense, Generals Juan Briones Davila and Victor Malca Villanueva, to report on the Barrios Altos massacre. The ministers presented three hypotheses about the perpetrators (Shining Path, MRTA or outside organizations) but categorically denied the …
Army soldiers detained a group of community members who were coming to the aid of the court for the removal of corpses, holding them in an abandoned house from 10:00 in the morning until 5:30 in the afternoon. At approximately 3:30 the detainees felt an explosion, due to the fact …
Prosecutor Carlos Escobar Pineda, accompanied by family members, arrived at the Pucutuccasa hill to exhume the bodies of missing persons. After excavating, he found three bodies, one of which was that of Jovita García Suárez. Due to time constraints, only Jovita's body was taken to the Cangallo Health Post for …
Military personnel arrived at Cceschua where most of the Cayara population had taken refuge. In the place called Ccahuaypampa they gathered all the villagers and accused them of having participated in the Erusco attack. They selected approximately 20 men (young and adult) whom they physically abused, put prickly pear cactus …
In retaliation to the Shining Path attack the day before, Army forces executed the Operational Plan 'Persecution' commanded by Major Miguel Nájar Acosta. Approximately 200 military troops entered Cayara where they killed villagers gathered in the church celebrating the feast of the Virgin of Fatima. Indalecio Palomino Tueros, Teodosio Noa …
EP Colonel Victor Ernesto Marquez Torres, Political Military Chief of Apurimac, issued a communiqué stating that on January 14, 1988 there had been a confrontation between Army personnel and subversives, resulting in the death of Armando Huamantingo Villanueva, Juan Pablo Carbajal, Manuel Niño de Guzman Ayvar, Leandro Pareja Tapia, Simona …
On August 15, 1985, the military left Accomarca for the Vilcashuamán Counter-Guerrilla Base. Sub-Lieutenant Telmo Hurtado informed the base chief that the operation had only involved the intervention of a "popular school" and that there had been no confrontation or violence. Infantry Captain Helber Gálvez Fernández reviewed the troops and …